Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Un Learn what we have been taught about the Jews

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

CUFI met at
Portland State U tonight with a marvelous program. They had Colonel (Res)
Bentzi Gruber of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) speak on the Ethics of
War. Israel abides by these rules which make them feel much better
about what they might have to do.

First we heard about the growth and
accomplishments of CUFI, which is only seven years old. Their last visit
to Washington D.C. had from between 800,00 to 900,000 people visit
there who made presentations in favor of Israel. The reason they
understand and help Israel is because they study the "Old Testament" and quoted
Genesis 12: I will bless those who bless you,, and him
who curses you I will curse; and all the families of the earth shall bless
themselves by you.." The speaker also
mentioned Chapter 17 which says: and I will
give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojourns--the
whole of the land of Canaan---as an everlasting possession; and I shall be a G-d
to them.

They are a group of
religious Christians who see that the Jewish people are again under attack and
that Jewish towns and villages throughout Israel are being assaulted by
terrorist missiles and suicide bombers. Thousands of Jews have been killed
in cold blood with more attacks in the horizen. Once again most of the
world is standing idly by as they are attacked. This group is outraged
while so many are apathetic. They are standing up and being counted and
have openly declared their support. I might add that they have done their
homework. They are an educated group of people who are not afraid to read
about the history and the current events of what is happening to Israel and
why. They are not about to be swayed by inuendos and false facts spread of
anti-semites. I'm so proud to know them and count them as dear
friends.

I learned that 70% of
people in the USA have a positive attitude towards Israel, but this is not
true in the campuses of our universities. They celebrate a week
with an irrational idea that Israel is an apartheid state with their
Apartheid Week campaign on their walls in posters. CUFI 's young members
have now created at least 300 campus centers and are making inroads in educating
students about Israel. If there's one thing that Israel is not-it's being
an apartheid state. Speaking of that later, the Colonel
answered a question and said that the Goldstone Report from the UN, so falsely
accusing Isreal of things that were untrue, even though it was edited and
changed later by Goldstone himself, had made matters so bad for Israel.
Everyone is still believing his original report. For a Jew to cause such a
calamity to our only Jewish nation in the world is a grave sin. Spreading
lies is even in our ten commandments, and he did just that. Goldstone had
taken the false words of others and figured that was good enough. Colonel
Gruber read all the pages of this report in English, which was a feat for this
Hebrew speaker. He was so disgusted.

I was so engrossed in
what Colonel Gruber had to say about how Israel goes out of it's way and even
expects their soldiers to put themselves in harm's way many times in order not
to cause civilian collateral. They don't want to harm civilians. He
pointed out that in a regular war you know who you are fighting against because
they wear uniforms, but terrorists don't. It's not because they are too
poor, but because this makes it harder to tell who they are. They have the
habit of standing amongst other unarmed people and know that Israel won't
hit at a crowd of people.

Not only does the IDF value human
life, despite what rumors our enemies have been creating, but they know that
harming children and pregnant women, for example, will cause your conscience to
tear you apart. They avoid causing reasons for suicides after going home
from a war by trying to do the ethical thing. This is war but they
remember to avoid the collateral damage. Don't take a life unless you have
to.

Judaism is a very ethical religion. The law of kashrut even
considers the feelings of animals. One of the laws that really impress me
is the one where we don't mix meat with dairy products when we eat. That
means, acording to the kashrut law, we wouldn't eat a cheese hamburger and
drink a chocolate milkshake with it. The reason for that is that a
cow gives milk to its baby. G-d forbid that we eat from an animal and then
drink it's mother's milk. This would make the milk cow feel so bad to see
this happen. We eat meat but not the blood of the animal. It's
salted to take the blood out after lots of soaking and rinsing. Even at
that we don't eat the parts with a large vein, so it comes down to eating
tougher cuts. This makes ordering a TBone steak rare is just not
kosher. As I see it, the laws pertaining to food are to create a very
sensitive non animalistic person who cares about ethics. It's a
conditioning process to become considerate of others, their feelings, their
rights, and their life. It behooves me how people can think that we are a
bad people knowing how much we care even for animals. It's a requirement
to feed our animals first before we eat. And so our IDF has a list of
ethics that must be met which all the soldiers know and follow. I'm very
proud of these men who put their life on the line all the time.

He
was telling us that it's rough carrying a 60 lbs sack on your back when you go
out into the field, and then putting on a helmet doesn't help. I can
imagine. Israel is usually a very hot country. As a soldier, you
have 8 seconds to decide on what to do when alarmed. We saw from the video
just what can happen in 8 seconds. It's like the blink of an eye.

Before Israel shoots at a target, they call into headquarters to get the
okay. Also, ammunition is extremely expensive and cannot be
wasted. One lazer packed rocket costs a lot of money and can't
be wasted. Ha! When I did Civil Guard duty in Israel, I was given
but one bullet. I had my German shepherd dog with me in the police van and
figured that if we met some terrorists, she was going to have to
protect me. I did a lot of praying.

I understand that
Reuters and CNN can set up situations for the notoriety. We can't always
trust our news. The camera guy has to be a Palestinian for these
agencies as he is the only one who can enter some villages safely. A UN
ambulence most often leads a group of terrorists. It's there filled with
their ammunition, and not for the injured. They know that Israel does not
fire on ambulences. When Hamas won over Abbas's Fatah and kicked them out
of Gaza, they took over all the ambulences for this purpose and fired 600
ambulence drivers so they could take them over.

Gaza is about 24 miles
long and 5 miles wide. Underneath lie at least 650 huge tunnels big enough
to hold jeeps and trucks to drive through from Rafa to Egypt. This is how
they have been bringing in ammunition to use against Israel. My concept of
a tunnel had been something you could crawl through on your hands and
knees. Who knew?

When Israel had to attack a central
target, they dropped leaflets to warn the people when they would come.
That wasn't all. They made phone calls, and follow-up phone calls.
They texted. All this to avoid collateral damage. It's not a
usual matter for a people to warn their enemy when they're coming, but they do
all this because of the unusual circumstance of having to defend themselves in
fighting terrorists who do not abide by any ethical rules at all.

Israel has sustained 351 rocket hits in November. The terrorists
try to hit Israeli civilians on purpose. This is the difference between
terrorists and freedom fighters.

And good gosh and Lord
almighty! Israel's army is not in the business of selling organs of
people! How people can create such ugly vomit-wretching lies I'll never
know. Colonel Gruber can't understand how people can be so gullible,
either. Anyone would see right away if they used their brains that any
organ used for transplant has to be handled with care and kept in some cold pack
container and rushed to a patient. That's not going to happen from the
front lines in Israel. No! What our IDF are watching out for is
kidnappers of solders like what happened to Shalit.

This country
that so many college campuses have defamed has no death penalty except in very
extreme cases, as with the convicted Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann.
The strictest penalties are prison and exile, which apply to those directly
involved in carrying out, planning, assisting or supporting terrorists or
terrorist activities. Our Oregon governor would not have any problems with
such a law at all, would he.